Book of Genesis - Ch. 8, Vs. 1-22 (06/25/2000)

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that the earth, that the flood caused, all right, the atmosphere become polluted.

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What else? Exactly. What? All right.

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All right. The crust, earth's crust, all right, the crust of the earth was broken.

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And it formed what we call today plates. The drifting of the continents came into being.

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The dry land split and formed the continents, and they've been moving ever since.

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The mountains were pushed up, the valleys were pushed down.

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Some of the high plateaus you see in West Texas were not raised.

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The ground around them sunk, and that's the reason they're still flat on top. The mountains are still moving.

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Everything is still occurring at a much slower rate, of course, but due to the catastrophic catastrophe that took place, there's no way that man can put into words just what did happen.

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But the sunshine on earth for the first time, Noah's going to see the sun directly.

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He'll see clouds, rain. Of course, he saw rain during the flood, but not before that.

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So as Russell said, nearly everything that we observe today has come about because of the flood.

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But, yes, because of the mountains, because of the terrain and the ice caps, so everything changed.

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Now, we that are flatlanders go to Colorado and look at the beautiful mountains.

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The people that live in the mountains wonder why we ever want to leave this flatland. I had a friend that,

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I guess, for 30, 40 years, he would go to Colorado deer hunting every year.

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Last five or eight years that he went, he didn't take a gun, he took a camera. And he was always making pictures up there and bringing them back and showing us.

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And then when he'd go back, he'd take the pictures and show them. Well, that didn't impress them very much.

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And they wanted him to make pictures of this country and bring up there. And they did, he did. And he said the first thing they wanted to know was why would anybody leave this beautiful, flat country and come to the mountains.

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So, it's what you don't have that you cherish the most, I guess. All right, the animals now are going to become meat eaters.

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So is man. We have frost, freezing snow, sleet, ice.

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There will be fear between the beast and man. And we'll see that again pretty soon.

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So, let's move on now to the third verse. Verse, and the waters returned from all the earth continually.

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And after the end of the hundred and fifth day, the waters were abated.

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And the ark rested in the seventh month on the seventeenth day of the month on the mountains of Erat.

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And it says mountains, plural, because there's a long string of them. And the waters decreased continually.

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By the way, how many of you believe they've actually, that is the ark that they have seen? Do you know what

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I'm talking about? Yes.

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Yes. Well, the man

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I heard, he was quite old. His father took him when he was really young.

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And he remembers climbing up into it. And I don't remember the description.

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Anyhow, we know where it ended up here. The waters decreased continually until the tenth month.

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In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen. Now, Russell asked me last week for sure about the depths of the water.

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How much was it, Russell, over the... Okay. And that's all over the world, so there's a bunch of water.

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And it's still here. And it came to pass at the end of forty days that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made, and he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

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The raven. Who can tell me about, a little bit about a raven?

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All right. So, if there's any dead carcasses around that he would have eaten it.

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Then he sent forth a dove from him to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground.

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But the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot. And she returned unto him into the ark.

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For the waters were on the face of the whole earth. Then he put forth his hand, took her in, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.

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So he sent the raven out. It comes back, but it sits on the ark. Doesn't come in to him, but the dove does.

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And he stayed yet another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove. And the dove came in to him in the evening.

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Excuse me. And low in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off.

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So no one knew that the waters were abated from off of the earth. From this incident, the fact that this dove brought a, does it say leaf?

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Olive leaf. From this incident has come our symbol of peace today, the dove with the olive branch.

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And it has forever been like that. And he stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove, which returned not again unto him anymore.

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And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth.

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And Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry.

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And in the second month, on the seventh and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.

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God spoke unto Noah, saying, Go forth out of the ark. So he'd been with them all of this time, representing salvation.

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Go forth out of the ark, thou and thy wife and thy sons and thy sons' wives with thee.

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Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee of all flesh, both of fowl and of cattle, of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon the earth.

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And Noah went forth, and his sons and his wives' sons with him, every beast, every creeping thing, every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth after their kinds, went forth out of the ark, and Noah built it an altar.

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Now, I'm sure all of you have figured out how many days he was in the ark. Nearly ten days?

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A year and ten days. Do I get another bid? Three hundred and seventy -one days.

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That'd be a year and what? A year and what?

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Charlie's insistent on something. Their year was not the same as ours.

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The first six months had thirty days, the last six months had twenty -nine days.

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It was very interesting. The total, if you go by their calendar, made a hundred and fifty -four days plus a hundred and eighty days would be how many?

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And then how long was he in there over a year? One month and twenty -seven days?

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He was in there a week before it started, right? Then how long was he in there over and above the same date of the calendar as to when he went in?

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He went in in the second month and came out in the second month. He went in on the seventeenth and came out on the twenty -seventh, didn't he?

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Ten days? So he'd make a year and what? If you figure it by their calendar, you'd get the same thing as you do if you figure it by our calendar.

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It comes out exactly the same, but you've missed it by one day.

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You know, the responsibility of a teacher, all of this about the number of days may seem beside the point, but it really isn't, because it is my belief that a teacher not only needs to teach the basic truth of the

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Bible, he must teach the students how to study, and how to read, and how to observe, and how to know what you have read.

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That other day is there, so this week I want you to find it.

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It was one year and eleven days. Find that other day.

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One year and eighteen days. Excuse me, I forgot the other part of it. One year and eighteen days.

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See if you can come up with all of that. Genesis 8, 18,

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And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his son's wives with him. They all left. Every beast, every creeping thing.

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Now, Bill, when it says every creeping thing, does that mean cockroaches? Did the fire ants come over?

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Noah built an altar unto the Lord, and took of every clean beast.

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Now here comes some more interesting stuff. Took of every clean beast and every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

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Where did he get the fuel for the altar? Probably from the ark.

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So whenever they find it, there will be some planks missing. Next question.

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How did Noah learn the difference between clean and unclean? Where did he get that information?

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Is that your final answer? That's right.

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And this was... What? Why did he make a difference?

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Because God said so. No, there's something you all don't understand.

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I'm a student just like you are, but I'm always right. Because Christ wasn't unclean.

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And all of this is recorded before the law ever came. Long before.

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So it has always been that way. Abel did.

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Cain didn't. What? I can't understand you.

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He said not on that particular day. Oh, that's right. And that's the only day we have recorded.

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But his attitude was wrong. He didn't think blood was necessary. All right.

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Why is the offering burned? What's the significance of burning the offering?

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The sin offering was always burned.

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Well, that's true, but there's a little more to it.

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All right, that's part of it. The burning symbolizes that the victim deserved eternal hell.

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The consuming of it, the slaying, symbolizes the giving of the life to God.

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So the giving of the life to God, this is what

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Jesus did. And the fire represents judgment, of course.

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So the sacrifice had to be burned in order to show forth that it really deserved the fire of hell, the judgment of hell.

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That's right. That's right. That's right.

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You got it. So you see, there's something to learn in everything. 21,

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And the Lord smelled a sweet savor, and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake.

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For the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will

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I again smite any more everything living as I have done. What he literally said was,

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I will not add to curse the ground. There is a curse on the ground, on all of the created matter.

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We're living in a cursed world. It is waiting on the rapture of his saints.

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In 2 Peter, turn to that if you will, please. 2 Peter 3, beginning at verse 7, follow along.

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But the heavens and the earth, which are now by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of the ungodly men.

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But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the

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Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years is one day. And don't take that and try to figure, what was the word

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I wanted? Calculate. Calculate any coming or going. That's just a simple statement to show us that he's not in time.

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But the Lord is not slack concerning his promises. Some men count slackness.

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But is long -suffering to us -ward, and note the us -ward, save not willing that any of us should perish, but that all of us should come to repentance.

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I'm not reading something into it. If you read the entire chapter, you'll see that. But the day of the

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Lord will come as a thief, a thief in the night, in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise.

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Now I'm sure my grandfather just believed that, couldn't even feature what it might be.

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Today we begin to get a glimpse of how that might be. After the atomic bomb.

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And the elements shall melt with fervent heat. Bill, tell us what are the elements?

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All right, the very atom is going to melt. Can you describe that picture?

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Well, but the cloud is made up of elements. It'll be something we've never seen.

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The elements shall melt with fervent heat. The earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

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So the next time it'll be fire. Only it won't be fire, it'll be something far worse.

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While the earth remaineth seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall not cease.

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So we now have seasons for the first time in history. And the rainbow.

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Isn't it strange to think that there was a time when everything remained at the same constant state of perfectness?

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But there is no such thing today. All right, if you can find that extra day for me, by next week we'll move on to the ninth chapter.

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It's a common mistake everybody makes. Let me find my written stuff.

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According to their calendar is what have been 372 days.

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354 is their year. So 354, 372 leaves 18.

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If you go by hours, 365 plus what?

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No, it was there a week. If you calculate by,

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I said it that time, if you calculate by the 365, you have to stay with that in figuring it all out.

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It comes out exactly the same as it does if you go by their calendar. But it is one year and 18 days.

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I think you all come up to 17 days. There's another day there you didn't find.

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That'll give you something. Let's stand and be dismissed.

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Clarence, dismiss us please. One thing before you go,

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I announced this morning we'd go to the book of Liam. Or whatever, however you pronounce it.

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That may change. So study that book, but then you may study something else too.